Posted Feb-18-2013 By

Ethelwulf

@Ethelwulf well the YF-23 was overall more stealthy, especially in the IR-sector, and despite the fact that it lacked thrust vectoring, it was almost as maneuverable as the YF-22. One would think that when you're already buying the worlds most expensive fighter jet, dimes and cents wouldn't be the key factor in the end...

Posted Feb-19-2013 By

jaylander

Got a F-22 refueling video today. Saw a Rafale refueling video recently. Now we just need a refueling video of Iran's stealth fighter! Perhaps the video will be of it refueling while flying over that snowy mountain from its flight picture lol

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

Warg Rider

@Warg Rider 'i crawled,i walked,iran'. remember that one? they are finally in the running stage with their new high tech stealth fighter. what happened i wonder to all those foxy topless hookers hanging out trying to pick up westerners when the Shah ruled the hood. those were the days.

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

Warg Rider

This message is for all of the people who'd like to believe that Iran actually built a stealth fighter. This is what a real stealth fighter looks like. It was built by a real super power that has over 200 years of fighting major wars in it's history. Our country has spent trillions & trillions of dollars & sacrificed millions of Americans in the defense of our country. Our history has cost us much in both treasury & blood. This was a real stealth fighter refueling thousands of feet aMore..bove the Earth's surface. Not some toy replica of a lame plane that wouldn't even work if it were real. Only a country who's Government were filled with Buffoons would try to fake it. The United States never had to fake or pretend to have weapons systems, because our Government at least was smart enough to know that people are smarter than that & even in a best case scenario, it would accomplish nothing. . .Less..

Posted Feb-18-2013 By

zuluDROOG

Cool. It is now demographically possible that a great grandad in 1957, grandpa in 1976, dad in 1994 and 22 year old son (who just started primary KC 135 training this month) all flew the Stratocaster, er Stratotanker. Keep Em Flying & thanks for your service!!

Posted Feb-18-2013 By

smokey75

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

Viclamota

a good plane, but way too much plane for America's primary mission of Muslim killing. All you need to accomplish the muzzie-killing mission is to arm the Shias and the Sunnis, get some popcorn, and blow the start whistle. They'll do the rest and we can enjoy the show.

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

BadNad

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

linuxdood

Mad respect for these fellas, the most dangerous procedure to which they conduct on a daily basis, More dangerous than some might imagine, no doubt. Seems awfully close than typical... Excellent quality vid! Cheers!

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

adanvjr

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

Oneirishman

Exactly why do we have stuff like this? I've yet to see camels on snackbars cross the Atlantic or N-Koreans cross the Pacific and invade our country. The return on these near-billion dollar investments does not justify the debt we put ourselves in. I am for the protection and defense of our borders, but this is overkill (pun intended).

AP Legit

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

RustyNailer

@RustyNailer I agree, but let's keep our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters close to home; not in some shithole country fighting some war for fatcat politicians and their private interests.

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

Greyhound

My god that F-22 is one beautiful machine! But that being said, i am amazed that with the technology we currently possess, this is still the standard way of refueling mid-air. I'm just supprised that someone haven't come up with a better solution by now.

stuckinthesouth

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

lastdance

Well, no. :)
I get the fact that there is a standard amongs all aircraft manufacturers, so everything connects to anything, and setting a new standard would be a hassle, but at some point this needs to be done.

And when it comes to the actual technology, i'm not a Aerospace engineering, so i am speaking from no knowledge in the field, but, a automatic point to point connection would be my suggestion. Let say a universal id chip, that automaticly searches for it's counterpart. More..Let's say the KC135, and all other refuel airplanes carries Chip 1, and all fuel reciver planes carries chip 2, and chip 1 and chip 2 automaticly seeks each other out, to make the connection.

lastdance

Posted Feb-17-2013 By

mrcat

Iran just reported that this is fake and nothing but Photoshopped models unlike their Barbie Fun Jet, errr I mean Stealth fighter.

Nice Video, little boring, be nice to see it peel off like those A10's and do a barrel roll down dropping some flares..but still a nice video. BTW - Thanks for the SPAM for money, never get enough of those requests.